September, 2016

• 27 September

  Clinton boosted by debate as candidates rally support

  

    White Plains / AFP Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton jumped back onto the campaign trail on Tuesday after a bitter first head-to-head debate in which Clinton frequently forced her prickly opponent on to the back foot. The White House hopefuls sparred over temperament, stamina, judgment, and other issues in a televised match-up Monday night that seemed to have gone ...

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• 27 September

  New York launches drive to combat Islamophobia

  

    New York / AFP New York unveiled a major public campaign to fight Islamophobia, stressing the equal rights of the city’s hundreds of thousands of Muslims. The campaign — launched in the wake of a Manhattan bomb attack blamed on a radicalized Afghan-American — initially will use social media to spread the message under the hashtag #IAmMuslimNYC. “Now more than ...

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• 27 September

  German mosque bombed ahead of unity celebrations

  

    Dresden / AFP Bomb attacks hit a mosque and an international convention centre in the eastern German city of Dresden, police said on Tuesday, adding that they suspected a xenophobic and nationalist motive. No one was injured in the blasts in a city that has become a hotspot for far-right protests and hate crimes following Germany’s huge migrant influx. “Although ...

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• 27 September

  US owes blacks reparations over slavery: UN experts

    Geneva / AFP The United States should give African Americans reparations for slavery, UN experts said on Tuesday, warning that the country had not yet confronted its legacy of “racial terrorism.” Amid a presidential election campaign in which racial rhetoric has played a central role, the UN working group on people of African descent warned that blacks in the US ...

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• 27 September

  Excessive air pollution affects 92% people: WHO

    GENEVA / AP More than nine out of 10 people worldwide live in areas with excessive air pollution, contributing to strokes, heart disease, lung cancer and other problems, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The UN health agency said in a new report that 92 percent of people live in areas where air quality exceeds WHO limits, with ...

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• 27 September

  Asia growth holds stable

  

    Hong Kong / AFP The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday that growth across the region was holding stable despite global headwinds, with resilience in China and India keeping it on track. GDP for developing Asia is predicted to grow 5.7 percent in 2016 and 2017, according to the bank’s latest report — down slightly from 5.9 percent ...

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• 27 September

  China industrial profits hit US$80.2 billion

  

    Bloomberg Profits of China’s industrial corporations jumped the most in three years, adding to evidence of continued stabilization in manufacturing and boosting prospects for their ability to repay debt. Industrial profits rose 19.5 percent in August from a year earlier to 534.8 billion yuan ($80.2 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday. That completes August data that showed ...

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• 27 September

  Singapore urged to get tougher on money-laundering

  

    Singapore / AFP Singapore must take more aggressive action against complex cross-border money-laundering including prosecuting individuals and seizing illicit proceeds, a global financial crimes watchdog said on Tuesday. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said in a review the city-state has made significant improvements in its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing framework since the last assessment in 2008. ...

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• 27 September

  Taiwan shuts markets as typhoon Megi strengthens, cuts power

  

    Bloomberg Typhoon Megi lashed Taiwan with wind and rain on Tuesday, bringing 20-foot-high waves and knocking pedestrians off their feet in Taipei. More than 280,000 households lost electricity, state-owned utility Taiwan Power said on its website. About 5,000 people were evacuated, according to the island’s National Fire Agency. The capital city of Taipei shut markets, schools and offices, along ...

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• 27 September

  Lanco to start $1billion power assets sale

  

    Bloomberg Indian power producer Lanco Infratech Ltd. expects to start the process to sell its assets in six months to raise an estimated 70 billion rupees ($1 billion) to repay debt. “For now we are focused on completing the projects, because that will bring us value when we sell them,” T. Adi Babu, Lanco’s chief operating officer for finance, ...

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